Brown is serving a life sentence for the murder of a Nashville man in 2004. According to Brown, after a childhood marked by abuse and drugs, she was raped and forced into prostitution by a pimp, and ended up killing one of her clients out of self defense Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Himalayan tahrs, wild goats with a bushy lion-style mane, are far cheaper. The trophy fee, or kill fee, to shoot one is $7,500. An Arabian oryx is $9,500; a sitatunga antelope, $12,000; and a black wildebeest, $15,000.Submitted by Phyllis P to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The outside world might never have heard about the suspected massacre if not for some barroom boasting by a group of miners fresh from working an illegal gig in the Amazon jungle.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Cities all over the United States have been boosting their minimum wage. It's up to $15 an hour in Seattle, but it's going in the opposite direction in St. Louis, Missouri. Submitted by Phyllis P to Business | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The parent company of Burger King and Tim Hortons, Restaurant Brands International Inc, has vowed to stop injecting chickens with antibiotics by the end of 2018.Submitted by Phyllis P to Health & Wellness | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Carol Denise Richardson was sentenced to life in prison in 2006. Her crime? Possessing 50 grams or more of cocaine. Prosecutors said she intended to distribute the drugsSubmitted by Phyllis P to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Etzanoa is the 2nd biggest settlement of Native Americans found in the US, Blakeslee said. Now it is the known location of a 1601 battle pitting outnumbered Spaniards firing cannons into waves of attacking Indian warriors.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>"Our contamination changes by the season," said Mike Taylor, the company's director of recycling operations here."Submitted by Phyllis P to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>For more than two years, since they were 12 years-old, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser have spent their life inside separate Wisconsin facilities awaiting trial before being charged as adults for attempted first-degree intentional homicide.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>While celebrating his eldest son's lavish wedding, at which a number of famous singers and belly dancers performed, Nasser Hassan decided to "double the joy," he later recalled. He announced that his son Omar would marry his cousin Gharam.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Jessica Jauch was held for 96 days in a Mississippi jail without seeing a judge, getting a lawyer or having a chance to make bail. Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The senior executive from the nation’s largest labor group walked door-to-door through a middle-class neighborhood in Northern Virginia carrying a twin message for union households. Submitted by Phyllis P to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>“You have been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude,” it read, apparently referring to a conviction for a series of bad checks from 20 years ago, “which disqualifies you from voting under Amendment 579 of the Constitution of Alabama.”Submitted by Phyllis P to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - Prosecutors will drop all charges against former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, according to a motion filed in US District Court.Submitted by Phyllis P to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>A judge on Monday tossed out murder convictions for three men who spent 20 years in prison in a case that started unraveling when attorneys learned a top county prosecutor deliberately hid witness statements casting doubt on their guilt.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The air inside the Jefferson Davis Parish jail was hot and musty. Prisoners, often awakened by the morning heat, hoped for cooling rain after nightfall. And ice, one inmate recalled, brought fleeting relief in the cell she called a “sweatbox.”Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>With the consent of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, a New Jersey court today vacated the 1988 rape conviction of Dion Harrell based on new DNA evidence proving his innocence.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>It’s been 15 years since Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in the bathtub of their suburban Houston home in a quintuple murder that gripped the nation.

Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The White House said many of them would have already finished their sentences if they had been sentenced under current, less onerous sentencing guidelines.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>William Thompson, an attorney and a criminology professor at the University of California at Irvine, told a KHOU 11 reporter, were terrifying: It appears that Houston police technicians were routinely misinterpreting even the most basic samples.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Colorado Springs will pay back destitute people it illegally jailed because they couldn’t pay court fines, the city announced Thursday. The city will discontinue debtor’s prison policy, which violated both the U.S. Constitution and a 2014 state law. Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Ramslog decided on the spot that she would help: Ramslog ended up giving two young couples, a small child and a newborn baby a 120-mile ride in her cramped sedan to their destination in Sweden. “When we crossed the border, they rejoiced and cried,”.Submitted by Phyllis P to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, has until midnight on Sunday to decide whether to bring back the electric chair as a compulsory method of execution.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>But the detail that struck Joyce was the fact that the bride was only in the sixth grade.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Have you heard of Glen Grays, a black mailman who was arrested on the job by officers in Brooklyn, NY? Maybe not, but his story is one we should talk about.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Virginia's lawmakers passed a bill which will allow for the eventual production and distribution of marijuana oils in the Commonwealth. After lengthy discussions and negotiations, SB701 passed both the House and the Senate unanimously. Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Big chocolate makers have promised to end child labor in their industry--and have spent tens of millions of dollars in the effort. But 2.1 million West African children still do the dangerous and physically taxing work of harvesting cocoa.Submitted by Phyllis P to Business | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>For decades, India has relied on female sterilization as its primary mode of contraception, funding about four million tubal ligations every year, more than any other country. Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>In an op-ed in the Washington Post, President Barack Obama announced Monday he's banning solitary confinement for juveniles in the federal prison system. Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>“Nothing helped to revive the patient back, and unfortunately with the septic shock by an unknown organism, we lost the patient,’’ wrote the emergency room doctor, Sujatharani Thiruman.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>"Linda was homeless and she went to sleep one night and never woke up," Elvis Summers, who lives in Los Angeles, told ABC News. "When I learned she passed, I remembered she asked me for a house.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Census data, however, show a big need: a full 10 percent of preschoolers in a 2011 survey of employed mothers fell into the "self care" category — meaning the only supervision they received was at school.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Before you throw away that plastic grocery bag, consider this: It could be helping the homeless get a better night’s sleep. Submitted by Phyllis P to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>"For your consideration, there’s a blood drive outside,” he continued, according to a recording of the hearing. “If you don’t have any money, go out there and give blood and bring in a receipt indicating you gave blood.”Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Ali Mohammed Nimr was 17 when he was arrested without warrant by police in 2012 for taking part in an "Arab Spring" protest against the Saudi government.Submitted by Phyllis P to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Spared from execution, Cooper served 27 years. On a June day in 2013, she was released, a smiling but scared middle-aged woman riding off in a van, watching the prison razor wire fade in the rearview mirror.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>In tiny Alexander City, Alabama, the local government and police chief ran "a modern-day debtors' prison" in which poor people were ordered to pay off their fines by serving time in the municipal jail at a rate of $20 a day.Submitted by Phyllis P to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Men make up the majority of a rights group working to protect girls and women.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>For more than 35 years, a Texas man has been in a prison even though an appeals court threw out his conviction on a 1976 murder charge that initially had him on death row.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Stepping up transfers of 52 detainees who have been deemed eligible for release to other countries, while moving the rest to Supermax prisons in the United States or to military prisons where they will be tried before military commissions.Submitted by Phyllis P to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Imprisoned for 25 years over killing while he was at Disney WorldSubmitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]> Two Guantanamo Bay detainees are using President Barack Obama's own words to argue that the U.S. war in Afghanistan is over — and therefore they should be set free.Submitted by Phyllis P to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Texas on Wednesday executed Lester Bower, one of the longest-serving inmates on the state's death row who had said he was wrongly convicted of killing four men in 1983 and had spent three decades trying to halt his capital punishment.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Strong suspicions suggested Dwayne Wilson was that man. A "hit" letter from the state crime lab had linked Wilson's DNA to a sexual crime spree Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The men sold 35 kilograms of giant panda meat and its four paws for 4,800 yuan ($800) to one buyer, and that the parts were sold again to others, Xinhua said.Submitted by Phyllis P to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe granted an absolute pardon on Wednesday to Michael Kenneth McAlister, after concluding the crime he was convicted for was committed by someone else.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]> An Afghan judge sentenced four men to death on Wednesday for the mob killing of 27-year-old woman accused of burning a Koran in KabulSubmitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Sandiford admitted the offences, but says that she agreed to carry the drugs after a drug syndicate threatened to kill her son.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Virginia has sent only six people to death row in the last nine years after sending 40 over the previous eight years.Submitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Michael Hanline, 69, was the longest-serving wrongfully incarcerated inmate in California historySubmitted by Phyllis P to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>